It was ben Jonson who wrote that Shakespeare was "not of an age, but for all time". He was Shakespeare's contemporary. His best known play, Volpone, or the Fox, was first acted some four hundred years ago. As a hero, Volpone has become global and almost timeless. We find him in every paper or book or movie today. In his own words, Ben Jonson means to "scourge those apes", and "see the time's deformity": these are very much the words a politician or a journalist would use today.
Soon after Ben Jonson, La Fontaine tried to do the same: he made made Maître Renard the hero of one of his Fables starring animals. Much closer to our times, James Joyce himself took a cat as the symbol of cunning in the story he wrote for his grandson, Stephen Joyce, "The Cat and the Devil".
For the last hundred years, quite a number of adaptations and screened versions have been made, in many European languages. That is another reason why we publish Volpone now, in Romanian and French translations, alongside with the English original.

C. George Sandulescu and Lidia Vianu

Ben Jonson: Volpone, edited by C. George Sandulescu and Lidia Vianu, is formally launched on Wednesday 22 February 2017. The book is available for consultation and downloading on receipt of this Press Release, at the following internet address:

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